Pyotr Demichev

Pyotr Demichev
Пётр Демичев
First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
In office 18 June 1986 – 1 October 1988
President	Andrei Gromyko
Preceded by	Vasili Kuznetsov
Succeeded by	Anatoly Lukyanov
Minister of Culture
In office 14 November 1974 – 18 June 1986
Premier	Alexei Kosygin Nikolai Tikhonov Nikolai Ryzhkov
Preceded by	Ekaterina Furtseva
Succeeded by	Vasily Zakharov
First Secretary of the Moscow City Party Committee
In office 4 March 1960 – 1 November 1962
Preceded by	Vladimir Ustinov
Succeeded by	Nikolay Yegorychev
Administrator of Affairs of the Council of Ministers
In office 1 July 1958 – 3 March 1959
Premier	Nikita Khrushchev
Preceded by	Anatoly Korobov
Succeeded by	George Stepanov
First Secretary of the Moscow Regional Party Committee
In office 2 March 1959 – 6 July 1960
Preceded by	Ivan Kapitonov
Succeeded by	Grigory Abramov
Candidate member of the 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th Politburo
In office 16 November 1964 – 30 September 1988
Member of the 22nd, 23rd, 24th Secretariat
In office 31 October 1961 – 16 December 1974
Personal details
Born	21 December 1917 Kirov, Kaluga Oblast, Russian Empire
Died	10 August 2010 (aged 92) Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation
Nationality	Soviet
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Profession	Civil servant

Pyotr Nilovich Demichev (Russian: Пётр Нилович Демичев; 21 December  [O.S. 3 January 1918] 1917 – 10 August 2010) was a Soviet-Russian political figure. He was First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1986 to 1988 and Minister of Culture from 1974 to 1986.^[1] He was a deputy Politburo member beginning in 1964. He was considered to be a "Communist Party ideologist" with little sympathy for liberal movements within the Soviet Union.^[2]

References

1. "Party Propagandist Named to Head Culture Ministry". Associated Press. August 16, 1986.
2. "Red art chief fired; 'fresh wind' stirring?". The Spokesman-Review. Associated Press. June 19, 1986.